[or-roots] Name coincidences curiouser and curiouser

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Les 

Yes! the Belknaps are related to us, early settlers in Benton County and the Summer lake Valley as per the Book you gave me copies of. 

In fact I am going over to Pailsey July 2nd to check the Currier graves their, and Meet Diane Elder, who is often on the list, she is distantly related. 

Benton County Historical Society has the Belknap, Currier and Roe genealogies online on their Pioneers of Benton County, I need to check what others they have, maybe they have the Howell's. 

Have done a little checking on my Wife's Howell's, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri is where they seemed to have been, but i do not have much data, particularly Birth and Death dates so having a hard time with them. 

Glen   



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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net> 
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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:48:46 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Name coincidences curiouser and curiouser 

As to the NE Oregon thing, that seems to be a trend; we have kicked it around before and best guess is a gold strike or some such inspired a boom there. I note several of the lines I have or have helped others with do the same thing. Sometimes only once some of them show up in NE or E Central and then back to balmy western Oregon, but a significant fraction jump over the Columbia too. 

I know several other folks on the list have talked about that path and Samuel, son of Daniel Richardson of the next to oldest house still standing in Eugene fame (I think, the NPS doc doesn't exactly make that clear) and some of his kids end up in Pullman by 1920. 

Speaking of coincidences; Electra BELKNAP Howell? Samuel Henry Christian married Lovina Jane Belknap; she dau of George and Keturah G. (Penton) Belknap. 

It occured to me to check the benton county genealogy; 
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=sbenton&recno=9321 

will probably answer a lot of questions, I didn't try to track down how Belknap and Howell get together, but Paul was hoping to find living relatives of Daniel R. Christian and it looks like mores the point he can throw a rock in any direction in the Willamette valley and if it lands on a pioneer owned property they are probably kin. 

Les C 
> 
Some of my Howell names are 
Austin, Susan (Wife of Austin) Walter, Bertha, Stephin (Stephen), Electra Belknap Howell, William, Nancy Ann, Silas, (Wife, Jerusha) Ida May, Mary 
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